Poist named department chair for logistics, operations and management
information systems for ISU's College of Business

AMES, Iowa -- Richard F. Poist, Jr., professor of transportation and
logistics for Iowa State University's College of Business, has been named
chair of the department of logistics, operations and management information
systems. His three-year appointment as chair began July 1. He had served as
interim chair for the department since 2002.

Poist came to Iowa State in 1991. He teaches and researches primarily in the
areas of purchasing, business logistics, supply chain management, societal
issues related to logistics, and educational skill requirements of logistics
managers.

Poist has served on the curriculum, faculty development, and promotion and
tenure committees in the College of Business. At the university level, he
has served as a member of the Faculty Senate and Faculty Senate Executive
Board as well as the President's Task Force on Research.

Poist is currently state of Iowa vice president for the National Defense
Transportation Association (NDTA). He is on the editorial review board, the
communications advisory committee, and the national career education
committee of NDTA. He is also a member of numerous other professional
associations.

He serves on a number of editorial review boards, including the
Transportation Journal and the Journal of Business Logistics. Poist
received a bachelor of science in 1965 from The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park; a master of business administration in 1967
from the University of Maryland, College Park; and a doctor of philosophy
degree in 1972 from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

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Quick look

Professor Richard "Dick" Poist has been a faculty member at Iowa State
since 1991. His appointment as chair of the logistics, operations and MIS
department is for three years.